1+ mon, 6+ day ago (242+ words) If you're a sci-fi enthusiast looking to get into one of the genre's contemporary pillars, we've written out a handy guide to help you through the veritable mountains of "Stargate"audiovisual content. Watching everything can take you anywhere from a few weeks to multiple months or even years depending on your pace, but it will absolutely be a worthwhile experience. Now, over the next slides, you will find a more detailed viewing order that takes into account each film and series' place in the canon. Following the release of "Stargate: The Ark of Truth" on March 11, 2008, another sequel to "SG-1" was released in direct-to-DVD movie form, this time on July 29, 2008. Written by Brad Wright and directed by Martin Wood, "Stargate: Continuum"leaps forward significantly from "The Ark of Truth" in continuity, and is best enjoyed if you watch it right…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago (262+ words) When the ship's new nurse Ensign Gamble (Chris Myers) picks up one of the mysterious orbs, it explodes in his hand. The flying glass and bolts of eldritch energies immediately destroy his eyeballs(!). Luckily, this is "Star Trek," so the medical tools exist to grow him some new ones." Even Pelia (Carol Kane), who is herself many millennia old, admits that looking at these demonic aliens gives her the heebie-jeebies. They are scary, and evoke the scariest parts of movies like "Event Horizon" and "Prometheus."" The aliens are also, perhaps, the first wholly original villain in the annals of "Strange New Worlds." This is very exciting for us Trekkies." But the new noncorporeal entities in "Through the Lens of Time?" The ones that can possess a person after destroying their eyeballs? Eek. That's a scary new wrinkle for "Strange New…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago (644+ words) In addition to his decades of writing and reviewing experience, Witney Seibold has also been podcasting professionally since 2011 as the co-host of "The B-Movies Podcast" and then the Critically Acclaimed Network, both with co-host William Bibbiani. He once served as film editor for the defunct newspaper NoHo>LA, and he has written for CraveOnline, Nerdist, IGN, and Blumhouse. A Legendary Star Trek Producer Revealed His Favorite Movie In The Franchise Of the 13 extant "Star Trek" feature films, it's widely agreed that Nicholas Meyer's 1982 sequel "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" is the best one. Many Trekkies like the outsize character of Khan and Ricardo Montalb'n's equally enlarged performance, as well as the film's exciting, climactic ship-to-ship combat sequence. To remind readers, "Khan" climaxes when the eponymous character hijacks a Starfleet vessel called the U.S.S. Reliant and uses it to fight Admiral…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago (373+ words) In addition to his decades of writing and reviewing experience, Witney Seibold has also been podcasting professionally since 2011 as the co-host of "The B-Movies Podcast" and then the Critically Acclaimed Network, both with co-host William Bibbiani. He once served as film editor for the defunct newspaper NoHo>LA, and he has written for CraveOnline, Nerdist, IGN, and Blumhouse. Mount is also holding the clapper board, although the usual information written on it (the director, the title of the episode, etc.) is absent. Production is, naturally, under wraps. Fans, however, can look forward to season 4, as it is being filmed as we speak. Ethan Peck, Celia Rose Gooding, and Anson Mount mark the start of Strange New Worlds season 4 To remind readers, "Strange New Worlds" is set in the few years leading up to the original "Star Trek" series, and has…...

11+ mon, 3+ week ago (798+ words) Debopriyaa is a poet, entertainment writer, and film critic who writes in-depth features, reviews, and op-eds on a diverse range of topics, with a specialization in South-East Asian perspectives in cultural media. She has been writing professionally about film since 2014, while also dabbling into the realm of digital content marketing and management for a span of six years. 22 Years Ago, Christian Bale Starred In This Overlooked Dystopian Sci-Fi Movie In 2002's "Equilibrium," the dystopian megapolis of Libria encourages its citizens to keep their emotions in check. This mandate for emotional regulation is one among many acts of censorship enforced by this totalitarian regime, which views emotional excess as the catalyst for conflict. Here, natural flora is consciously overwritten with sleek concrete edifices and all art is banned, lest it provokes powerful sentiments. To suppress humanity's naturalistic urge to feel intensely,…...

4+ mon, 5+ day ago (343+ words) Spoilers for "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" season 3, episode 3 follow. "Star Trek" is a sci-fi franchise with a flexible tone. Things can easily get as silly as a musical or as dark as "In The Pale Moonlight" when you're on the final frontier. Indeed, every "Star Trek" series has featured at least one scary episode. The first ever-aired "Star Trek" episode, "The Man Trap," is technically a vampire story. The Enterprise visits distant planet M-113, where they run afoul of a telepathic "salt vampire" with a lamprey mouth. Back in "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" season 1, the show did an "Alien" riff in "All Those Who Wander," when the Enterprise crew is trapped on a shipwreck with juvenile Gorn hunting them. The bodies the Chimera-moss has possessed now have the same drive to spread and consume. In M'Benga's words, "[they're] devouring…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago (364+ words) Pauli has written thousands of articles for various online outlets since 2011, collaborating with some of the finest word-crafting minds on the internet to surf the cultural zeitgeist. Apart from his work on Looper, Grunge, Sciencing, Mashed, The Modern Rogue, TopTenz, and others, he was a regular columnist for comedy juggernaut Cracked.com from 2013 to 2017, where he covered a wide variety of subjects and crafted pop culture analysis for up to millions of readers every week. Star Trek Legend Scott Bakula Once Headlined A Doomed Tom Clancy Movie Thanks to his roles as Dr. Sam Beckett on "Quantum Leap" and Captain Jonathan Archer on "Star Trek: Enterprise," Scott Bakula is a science fiction legend. Thanks to his other 70-plus roles " including a seven-season tenure as Dwayne Pride on "NCIS: New Orleans" " the same status applies to his overall career. However, it's…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago (579+ words) Jeremy Smith is an entertainment writer with over two decades of experience that stretches back to the infancy of online journalism. He found his love for film criticism on Usenet forums in the mid-1990s, and quarreled his way into a staff position at Ain't It Cool News under the nom de plume "Mr. Here's How To Watch All 13 Star Trek Movies For Free When Gene Roddenberry created "Star Trek" in the 1960s, he savvily pitched it as "'Wagon Train' to the stars." Television Westerns like "Gunsmoke," "Bonanza," and "Rawhide" were all the rage at the time, so it was a masterstroke of broadcast salesmanship to suggest that a show about space exploration center on humankind pursuing its intergalactic manifest destiny. All of humankind. Which meant that the bridge of the Starship Enterprise would include the Asian helmsman Sulu and the Black communications…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago (253+ words) But wait, there's more! Right next to DS9, Starfleet discovered a stable wormhole that provided a "shortcut" to the very distant Gamma Quadrant, unexplored by Federation ships. A whole new frontier was open to Bajor and to Starfleet, and cosmic mysteries lay ahead." And there's more still! Inside the wormhole lives a species of noncorporeal godlike aliens with no sense of time or physicality. These noncorporeal beings managed to communicate with Commander Sisko (Avery Brooks), an act that some Bajorans saw as holy. Sisko became a Messianic figure for the Bajorans." Behr said that the four writers conspired about the Dominion, knowing they were going to be introduced eventually, but not mentioning them to any of the higher-ups at Paramount, nor any of the actors or producers.""We mentioned the word Dominion in the [episode "Rules of Acquisition"]," Behr said, "but…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago (307+ words) LEGO has officially announced the first "Star Trek" LEGO set as none other than the'U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D, the signature ship from "Star Trek:'The Next Generation." Clocking in at 3,600 pieces, this LEGO set is ready'to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life, new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before. Let's take a closer look at the "Star Trek"'LEGO set below! In addition to creating a detailed LEGO replica of the Enterprise-D from "The Next Generation," the set also includes some fantastic features, starting with the detachable command saucer. Plus, there's a secondary hull and'warp nacelles with distinctive red and blue detailing. The ship also has an opening shuttle bay and two mini shuttlepods. Plus, the good news is that it still comes with all the minifigures you'd want:'Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Commander…...